Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws

[Prometheus Bound]

97. I just won't wear a helmet.

I biked halfway across Canada in a summer including over the Rockies one week, and back and forth across the city to university and in the summers to work, I guess tens of thousands of miles and never had a single accident or even fell of a bike. I've been chased by drunks in a cars, intentionally cut off by cars that I guess don't like cyclists, had people open car doors in my path, and lost my brakes on the way downhill in the Rockies. Never fell.

Other people I know, including family members, have ridden a tiny fraction of what I have, and hit bumps or train tracks and fallen, get cut off by cars and fall, get sideswiped and fall, brake incorrectly or whatever and fall. So they wear helmets, and that's a good thing.

I'll make my daughter wear a helmet when she's old enough, but I guess I'll never wear one myself. But I ride extreeeeemely carefully.

And calling me names won't change anything.